Isibhasiyaim

SR No.: 022594
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Walther Schubring, Dalsukh Malvania
Publisher: L D Indology
Publication Year: 1974
Total Pages: 198
Language: Sanskrit
Classification: Book_Devnagari & agam_anykaalin
File Size: 15 MB

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PREFACE
The L. D. Institute of Indology has great pleasure to publish Isibhasiyāim, a Jaina canonical text of early period, on the auspicious occasion of the 2500th anniversary of the Nirvāņa of Lord Mabāvīra. Dr. Walther Schubring edited the text with introduction and critical notes in German. It was published in den Nachrichten der Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen in 1942, pp. 489-576. In 1951 Dr. Schubring edited and published the Sanskrit commentary (pp. 21-52) in the same Akademie. I requested Dr. Charlotte Krause (Subhadrā Devi) to translate the Introduction etc. into English and she very kindly did the translation. I should thank both these scholars. Dr. Schubring who is no more with us kindly allowed us to reprint the text with the English translation of his German Introduction, etc. Dr. Charlotte Krause has taken great care in translating the German Introduction etc.
The second edition of the text with the German translation of the text has been published from Hamburg in 1969. But we have not given in this volume the translation of the text. Only the German material published in 1942 and 1951 is translated into English.
Dr. Schubring in his preface to 1969 edition mentions Dr. Krause's English translation. We do not know whether he intends the translation of the text or that of his German Introduction etc. Dr. Krause completed the translation of German Introduction, etc, in 1958 and very kindly handed over to me for publication. All these years it was with me. Before writing this preface I wrote a letter to Dr. Krause to have her word for this publication, but I could get no reply from her.
The text was printed in Roman script only in both the abovementioned editions. But in this volume we have printed the text in Roman as well as in Devanāgari script. The transliteration from Roman to Devanagari script is done by Dr. Nagin J. Shah. For this my thanks are due to him.
Isibhāsiyaim is a unique Jaina canonical work because it contains the sayings of Non-Jaina Rșis. The work proves the catholicity and nobility of the early Jaina thinkers who collected the sayings of non-Jaina Rşis to form a canonical work. Again, the work points to the existence of the common etbical thought in early religions of various denominations. It is hoped that the publication of this important work will be of immense value to the keen students of Indian Religions.
L, D. Institute of Indology Ahmedabad-380009 1st June 1974,
Dalsukh Malvania
Director.